The Best Tiaras in Oscars Red Carpet History, From Ruth Negga to Elizabeth Taylor

Tonight, for her first turn on the Oscars red carpet, Ruth Negga looked every bit the Academy Awards veteran in a ruby crown by Irene Neuwirth. The actress, who is up for Best Actress in Loving, wore the sparkling headpiece with a short slicked-back hairstyle. It’s a move straight out of the timeless actress playbook. The tiara has been the piece du jour for actresses since Elizabeth Taylor slipped one on for her red-carpet turn in 1957, followed closely by Eva Gardner in 1960. Fast-forward years later, in the more-is-more excess mood of the nineties, when Salma Hayek brought the piece back onto the red carpet, wearing a glimmering headband perched on top of her larger-than-life bouffant bun in 1997.

The more pared-back version of the hair accessory came during the 2000s: Natalie Portman wore a thin diamond vine headband on the 2005 Academy Awards red carpet, and Lupita N'yongo also opted for a thin sparkling hairpiece in 2014 to snag her award for Best Supporting Actress in Twelve Years a Slave. Nonetheless, Negga’s tiara stood out: The rubies cleverly matched her red lip and, of course, the red carpet.